SMARTSPACES

SMARTSPACES (Saving Energy in Europe's Public Buildings Using ICT) is a three year European Union project funded through the Competitiveness & Innovation Framework Programme.

The SMARTSPACES project co-ordinators are Empirica and there are a total of 30 partners.

The implementation of operational services includes 11 pilot sites with more than 550 buildings in 8 countries (United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain,Netherlands, Turkey, Serbia) with almost 20,000 professionals and staff users and reaching more than 6,000,000 visitors annually.

The SMARTSPACES service will enable public authorities in Europe to significantly improve their management of energy in the buildings they occupy.

Aims of the Project

To substantially reduce peak and overall demand for energy and water across EU public buildings

To develop a service comprising of innovative ICT-based energy decision support, awareness and management service components.

Improving the energy efficiency of its own buildings is of great importance to Birmingham City Council, and the SMARTSPACES sites all represent big buildings with a high resource consumption that present many challenges regarding the existing installations, number of rooms, building age and the various user groups based within.